Government is simplest when it is unspecific—it's when it starts trying to subdivide the population and impact only targeted groups that it becomes hard to administer think of how little trouble seniors have accessing a universal program like Social Security versus how much trouble the poor have trying to determine eligibility for a means-tested program like Medicaid.

St. Vincent's has tapped real-estate firm Eastern Consolidated to sell the land to a developer or home builder, who could build one or two large estates or subdivide the area into as many as 16 two-acre plots.